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Octopus Mini-Windsock Craft and Printable Activities

This is an easy octopus craft suitable to celebrate ocean wildlife and appropiate for preschool, kindergarten and early elementary grades.

A windsock is a conical tube used to tell wind direction and speed, or as decoration.

The main skills to practice with the craft are:

Following a set of instructions and steps
Scissor cutting skills.
Recognizing different lines: solid and dashed lines.
Numbers 1 to 8 > octopuses have eight legs. Children can count the legs, each leg has eight oval suckers.
Octopuses are not fish, they are different type of animal called a mollusk.
Identify the colors.

Print template in white paper or print to color craft paper. Orange is a good choice to combine two letter O words: orange & octopus. The base color of octopuses can be brown, reddish-brown, grey, shades of yellow, orange and black.
Discuss what is a dashed and solid line and identify these in the template.
Tell the children they are going to follow six steps to make a fun octopus windsock
- Step 1: Color and decorate the template.
- Step 2: Cut close to the dashed line around the large template.
- Step 3: Discuss that an octopus has eight legs. Count each leg. Point to each leg having eight ovals that represent the suckers.
- Step 4: Cut along the remaining dotted lines. Stop where the dotted line ends.
  Optional: add glitter glue to the template, wait to dry and continue to step 5.
- Step 5: Apply glue to area that extends outand affix to the underside of the oppossite side to form a cylinder.
- Step 5: Cut a 11.5-12-inch piece of paper or ribbon can also be used to make handle. Attach the handle to the undersides of the craft with glue, tape or staple.
  Good JOB, the octopus windsock is ready!

Octopus paper bag puppet
color, cut out, glue to bag